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Last Living U.S. WWI Veteran Dies

 
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LewWaters
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:20 am    Post subject: Last Living U.S. WWI Veteran Dies Reply with quote
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Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110.

Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge.

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DeJonge found himself the spokesman and advocate for Buckles in his mission to see to it that his comrades were honored with a monument on the National Mall, alongside memorials for veterans of World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.

Buckles made history when he was asked to testify in Congress on the matter before a House committee on December 3, 2009.

"I have to," he told CNN when he came to Washington, as part of what he considered his responsibility to honor the memory of fellow-veterans.


Rest in Peace, Soldier.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My father, who served as a pilot during WWI, would have been 111 this year. R.I.P.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Old veterans aren't with us long enough.
My Grandfather (deceased) was a doughboy in France in WW1.
My Father (deceased) served on a destroyer at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, WW2.
My Grandfather on my mother's side served in the Spanish American War.
And when I was a little kid, I even had the privelege of listening to several stories told to me by my very old Great Uncle (deceased), who served with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
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